maloki 🍵 @maloki@elekk.xyz

I noticed that a lot of people on Mastodon are open source folks, so I wanted to share this article. It was written with blind people in mind, but I think it could help developers feel where we're coming from, why we hold on to closed source operating systems and software, and I did give ways blind people could help make software more usable for us. https://devinprater.github.io/open-source-blindness/ #opensource #accessibility #linux

"As the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic continues, we at ACM would like to do what we can to help support the computing community... We believe that ACM can help support research, discovery and learning during this time of crisis by opening the ACM Digital Library to all. For the next three months, there will be no fees assessed for accessing or downloading work published by ACM."

https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2020/march/dl-access-during-covid-19

Via:

https://pleroma.tilde.zone/objects/fcaeeab6-b1bd-4200-8892-5bb2750853bf

I think that I could do with a new eBook reader. Is there a non-Kindle device that I should consider?

I need it to be able to do the following:
* Have a backlight
* Have an E-paper screen
* Ability to read PDF's
* Have some sort of highlighting. Bonus points if I can just draw highlighting on the screen with a finger or a stylus and if I can search or list all the passages that I've highlighted so that I can stick them into Anki for textbooks and that.

Any recommendations?

By the way, Risk of Rain 2 is free from now until the 6th!! Go check it out! And play multiplayer with me or something

#nature

Also, see how the NHS volunteer service (500,000 sign-ups in first day of launch) has simply not done anything yet as far as I can tell. The promised food and prescription deliveries are in fact being done by third sector orgs, mutual aid collectives and council funded voluntary orgs. They have to make it seem as if they are doing something.

Be very wary of stories being fed to the media right now. There is SO much propaganda being spread to make everything look more positive.

For example, the Nightingale hospitals are not even really for treating patients with COVID-19. They are just extra beds for less serious ICU patients.

They're necessary of course but look how they've been spun as some sort of heroic achievement of the state to "fight" the virus when I suspect they will be understaffed with a lack of technical expertise which will probably cost lives.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/nightingale-hospital-in-london-to-treat-less-critical-covid-19-cases

Also see how the media and state blame working class people for shortages or not following social distancing.

The real issues raised in this crisis they don't want people to talk about:

"Just in time" delivery supply chains are terrible and fragile

The effects of austerity politics has destroyed public state institutions in innumerable and wide reaching ways.

A good majority of people in the UK, live in a state of precarious poverty and there are no protections for them in the areas of housing, work and care.

blessed

"okay but what about fantasy rpgs" okay first of all, COWARDS, are you telling me there isn't a wizard/bard duo atop a tower somewhere magically broadcasting their shit-hot lute solos to the minds of everyone in the realm

A case could be made for the existence of time travelers here.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/04/02/the-perpetrators-will-be-punished/

I love how people have tried to retcon the "it's easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven" line from the bible as like "oh no no no you see back then a 'camel' and 'eye of the needle' meant something different!"

Meanwhile, Mac users should immediately remove the #Zoom app again as they have a full root take-over risks, plus invisible webcam audio/video leak on their system.

Again.
https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/01/new-zoom-bugs-takeover-macs-cam-mic-root/

humans: it would be so cool if there was peaceful alien intelligence, i wonder how different their minds would be

also humans: there's 100+ million people with brains that work slightly differently in a certain way, which makes them behave/think/sense/move/communicate differently; we need to eradicate them, or at least send to conversion therapy & obedience training so they outwardly resemble the rest of us

It came to our attention recently that the account @\funkwhale@mastodon.uno was spreading misinformation about the project, and our funding in particular. They've also published hostile posts concerning some members of our collective.

This happens after we reached out to them multiple times in february to ask them to respect the guidelines we put in place for reusing our assets (https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/logos), and after they setup multiple social media pages by simply copy-pasting content from our website, which could be seen as a way to impersonate us, or at least to create confusion.

As a result, we have decided to block them, as well as the Funkwhale pod funkwhale.it they manage, from all our spaces and the pods we host.

Funkwhale.it is not affiliated with our project or collective, in any way.

sneaking a fry...

#sneaky #sneak #dog #frenchfries #animatedgif

at this point wikipedia should just rename "personal life" to the "are they gay" section